Thursday, March 11, 2010

A New Spin on Conductivity: Electric Signals Can Propagate through an Insulator: Scientific American

But that is precisely what a group of Japanese researchers has found, as detailed in a study in the March 11 issue of Nature. The electric current induces a collective excitation in the magnetic insulator that can travel relatively long distances before unloading its momentum to generate a voltage when it reaches an electric conductor.

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